The Right to Read

Social Justice, Literacy, and the Creation of Frontier College : the Alfred Fitzpatrick Story

"The definitive biography of the unsung Canadian literacy hero who created Frontier College by teaching workers in railway and lumber camps how to read. "The least they deserve is not charity but social justice."--Alfred Fitzpatrick, 1905. So sums up the quest of Nova Scotian Alfred Fitzpatrick, the man behind campaigns for…